Louis Varney (communications engineer)
Reginald Louis Varney (born June 9, 1911 in London , † June 28, 2000 in Burgess Hill , West Sussex ) was a British communications engineer and radio amateur .
As a 16-year-old boy, he received an amateur radio license in 1927 . From 1930 to 1960 he worked at the Marconi Company , interrupted by a deployment from 1942 to 1946 as a British radio reconnaissance officer (see also: Lydd Y Station ). He then served as an engineer in a number of countries, among others, the structure of the troposphere -Funksystems ACE High of NATO involved before he sat down with his second wife Nelida in Burgess Hill to rest.
Louis Varney became known as the inventor of the G5RV antenna (1946), a symmetrically fed dipole that is resonant on several shortwave bands .
literature
- L. Varney: An Effective Multiband Aerial of Simple Construction. In: RSGB Bulletin, July 1958, 19-20.
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| SURNAME | Varney, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Varney, Louis Reginald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British communications engineer and radio amateur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 2000 |
| Place of death | Burgess Hill , West Sussex |